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This beach is a village green!
Protesters are trying to thwart a multi-million pound development on a stretch of coastline – by claiming that the beach is, in fact, a village green.
The battle lines are being drawn in the Cornish resort of St Austell, where developers are aiming to build some 500 apartments, a hotel, swimming pools and shops on Carlyon Bay.
Work has already begun on the GBP200 million project, but according to The Guardian, Cornwall County Council has decided an inquiry will be needed to decide whether the beach should be given “village green status”.
Gloria Price, founder of the Carylon Bay Watch group, which is campaigning to gave the beach registered under the Commons Registration Act 1965, said the area has effectively been used as a village green for many years.
She reportedly told The Guardian: “The town of St Austell is not blessed with many parks or open spaces. For us the beach has always been our village green. It is just common sense.”
A spokesman for Ampersand, the group behind the proposed development, is quoted as saying: “Groups opposed to developments often use this tactic as a last resort top attempt to thwart proposals for which planning permission has already been given.”
Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad
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